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Vallástudományi Szemle Angol Nyelvű.Indd REVIEW IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church VVallástudományiallástudományi SSzemlezemle AAngolngol nnyelvű.inddyelvű.indd 1 22016.06.23.016.06.23. 117:23:287:23:28 REVIEW IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES ENGLISH EDITION JOURNAL FOR RELIGIOUS THEORY ANNUAL PUBLICATION PUBLISHED BY: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest, in cooperation with the Hungarian Association for the Academic Study of Religions Founding Editor-in-Chief: Lóránt Bencze Editor-in-Chief: Péter S. Szabó Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Orsolya Horváth Editors: Mihály Hoppál Orsolya Horváth Ábrahám Kovács Balázs Mezei Proofreading: Ágnes Laszkács Editorial Board: István Bugár, Matthew D. Eddy, Ida Fröhlich, György Heidl, Mihá- ly Hoppál, Gábor Kendeff y, András Máté-Tóth, Balázs Mezei, Ferenc Ru- zsa, József Schweitzer, Enikő Sepsi, Péter Szentpétery, Jenő Szigeti, László Török, Miklós Vassányi, Vilmos Voigt, Tünde Zentai, József Zsengellér Editorial Correspondence: Reviczky u. 4. Budapest Phone: (+36 1) 483-2900 E-mail: [email protected] It is not our policy to return manuscripts, nor do we retain them at our editorial offi ce. ISSN 1786-4062 Single issues of the journal are available for purchase at a 15% discount or you may place an order: L’ Harmattan Bookstore Kossuth L. u. 14-16. 1053 Budapest Phone: 267-5979 [email protected]; www.harmattan.hu VVallástudományiallástudományi SSzemlezemle AAngolngol nnyelvű.inddyelvű.indd 2 22016.06.23.016.06.23. 117:23:427:23:42 CONTENTS S. SZABÓ, PÉTER: Preface to the English Edition 5 MEZEI, BALÁZS: New Perspectives in the Study of Religion 7 KIM, YONG-HWAN – RO, YOUNG-CHAN: A Study of Religious Ethics in a Multicultural Society 25 HOPPÁL, MIHÁLY: Studies on Uralic Shamans 46 FREDERICKS, JAMES: Encyclopedia of the Soul: Zen Buddhism 65 RADI, ANITA: Th e Polymastic Nature of the Diana Ephesia Cult Statue 91 ZIMONYI, ÁKOS: Vestal Virgins and the Healthcare of Rome During the Imperial Period 110 RÁKÓCZY, ANITA: “Initiation into the Mysteries” International Conference 2015. – A Brief Overview 127 VVallástudományiallástudományi SSzemlezemle AAngolngol nnyelvű.inddyelvű.indd 3 22016.06.23.016.06.23. 117:23:427:23:42 VVallástudományiallástudományi SSzemlezemle AAngolngol nnyelvű.inddyelvű.indd 4 22016.06.23.016.06.23. 117:23:427:23:42 Preface to the English Edition In 2015 we recognized the necessity to launch an English-language edition of our journal in publication for 11 years. Our decision was heavily infl uenced by the tendency of several Hungarian journals to release an English version. Some years ago we published Science of Religion in Hungary (Budapest, 2011), however, it was a special issue in English for the participants of the International Associa- tion for the History of Religions conference held in Budapest. We have recently become aware that an increasing number of contributions and studies in English worth publishing are submitted by scholars of religious science year by year. Th us it seems evident that we join the wide-ranging international project of religious science research. Some studies published in this issue are based on contributions to diff erent conferences, while other can be seen as papers suitable for such occa- sions. Th e English-language edition of the journal is a forum for Hungarian scholars who intend to focus on mainstream religious science. At the same time it is also a forum for international authors, thereby facilitating the exchange of ideas and, perhaps, scholarly discussions about important issues in the fi eld. For the time being we are planning to publish an English-language edition annually. Since each issue in English will contain papers written in that year, they will serve as a supplement without separate units, off ering a yearly survey or summary of Hungarian scholarship in this discipline. Th e issues are planned to be released at the end of the year in question. We hope that the Review in Religious Studies, in its 12th year of publicaton in 2016, will still meet the readers’ expectations and it will attract more and more readers in the future, thanks to the English-language editions. On the whole, our aim is to facilitate the participation of scholars in the international research conducted in the fi eld. 20 December 2015 Prof. Péter S. Szabó Editor-in-Chief VVallástudományiallástudományi SSzemlezemle AAngolngol nnyelvű.inddyelvű.indd 5 22016.06.23.016.06.23. 117:23:427:23:42 VVallástudományiallástudományi SSzemlezemle AAngolngol nnyelvű.inddyelvű.indd 6 22016.06.23.016.06.23. 117:23:427:23:42 New Perspectives in the Study of Religion Balázs Mezei INTRODUCTION: GREAT CHAPTERS IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION Th e study of religion has a fairly long history. Depending on how we defi ne “re- ligion,” we may set the beginning of the study of religion around the time when philosophy emerged. Philosophy, as Plato defi ned it, was meant to practice “service to the god,” that is to investigate problems of what we call religion today.1 However, the Greeks did not possess a word that can be faithfully translated as “religion.” We needed the Latin notion of “religio” to synthesize various earlier meanings related to religion. In other words, before the fulfi lment of some linguistic and semantic presuppositions, the study of religion in the proper sense could not begin. It was the achievement of Christianity that a synthetic meaning of religion emerged in the Latin West; and it was the consequence of various theological endeavors to fi nd a good defi nition of religion which led to the attempts to create the study of religion in a more proper sense. In particular, the beginnings of the study of religion reach back to the emergence of the notion of religion only loosely bound to Christianity. Th ere is a parallel- ism between the appearance of the study of religion on the one hand and the spectacular change in the logical place of the term “religion” on the other hand. Th e more “religion” lost its strict identity with Christianity during the 16th–17th centuries, the more it became a general term, a genus, on the basis of which a number of species could be defi ned: Judaism, Islam, natural religion – and among these Christianity itself. Yet the scientifi c study of religion presupposes the proper development of another term, that of science. While the study of religion belonged to theology for many centuries, the great geographical discoveries made it possible to treat the problem of religion in a historical perspective. Th is perspective was closely linked to the emerging modern notion of nature. Just as nature acquired a status independent of grace, it had at the same time a historical character as well. “History” appears here 1 See Socrates’ Apology, 23b, 30a, in Plato, Th e Complete Works, Ed. by John M. Cooper (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997), p. 22 and 28. VVallástudományiallástudományi SSzemlezemle AAngolngol nnyelvű.inddyelvű.indd 7 22016.06.23.016.06.23. 117:23:427:23:42 8 REVIEW IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES as an alternative to the transcendent origin or direct divine intervention, because what evolves historically may be considered separately from the transcendent order. Th us Hume was able to write a lengthy work on “the natural history of religion” in which the questions of faith were neglected and only a certain development of a supposed “natural religion” was considered.2 Kant, Fichte, Schelling or Hegel, among other infl uential philosophers of the 19th century, developed a philosophi- cal, in this sense “scientifi c,” study of religion. Th is development announced the subsequent fl ourishing of the study of religion in a more specialized sense. Th e great paradigms of modern and contemporary science have surfaced in the study of religion in a number of ways. During the 18th and 19th centuries, various approaches were developed, such as the history, the psychology, the sociology, the phenomenology, or the hermeneutics of religion.3 Th ese paradigms usually followed some characteristic scientifi c schools of the period. For instance, when sociology was outlined in the works of Émile Durkheim,4 the sociology of religion emerged as a new form of scholarship. We can observe similar phenomena with respect to other areas of research. On this basis, a general rule may be formulated which runs as follows: in the modern and contemporary study of religion it was not a sui generis understanding of religion which determined the corresponding methodol- ogy. Rather, methodologies developed with respect to other areas of investigation have been applied to the study of religion in a more or less consistent fashion.5 Today, we witness new eff orts to use scientifi c results in the study of religion. My task here will be to consider and evaluate briefl y these eff orts. I shall argue that, these eff orts notwithstanding, the study of religion still exhibits a certain resistance to being fully exhausted by certain scientifi c paradigms, while these paradigms are important for reaching a better understanding of the mysterious phenomenon we call religion. PARADIGMS AND MISTAKES According to Jaques Wardenburg, there have been two main periods in the study of religion: the classical period reaching to 1945, and the period thereaft er embracing 2 David Hume, A Dissertation on the Passions: Th e Natural History of Religion, Oxford, Clarendon Press; New York, Oxford University Press, 2007. 3 Walter Kerber (Hrsg.), Der Begriff der Religion, München, Kindt, 1993. 4 Émile Durkheim, Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse, le système totémique en Australie, 5. éd, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1968. 5 Peter B. Clarke – Peter Byrne, Religion Defi ned and Explained, London, Th e Macmillan Press, 1993. VVallástudományiallástudományi SSzemlezemle AAngolngol nnyelvű.inddyelvű.indd 8 22016.06.23.016.06.23. 117:23:427:23:42 balázs mezei 9 the present.6 In the classical period, the most infl uential paradigm in the study of religion was off ered by the historical school.
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